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The physics of possibility : Victorian fiction, science, and gender /

"This book charts the discovery of probability and chance in Victorian science and its influence on the literature and culture of the period."--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tondre, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Colección:Victorian literature and culture series.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: developmental logics
  • The lost futures of the novel: negated potential in Richard Feverel
  • "The interval of expectation": Armadale and the history of the present
  • "A nat'ral born friend": the evolution of community in Dombey and Son
  • George Eliot's "Fine excess": Middlemarch, energy, and incalculable diffusion
  • Conclusion: "The varying experiments of time."